CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT TAKES AIM AT POLICE: City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente has taken aim at the Oakland Police Department, alleging that investigators trumped up sexual assault allegations against his son, Ignacio De La Fuente Jr., as De La Fuente Sr. sought election as Oakland’s mayor.

A Web site, http://www.delafuenteconspiracy.com, reportedly launched by De La Fuente Sr. and his wife, accuses the department of falsifying and altering police reports and suggests allegations against De La Fuente Jr. were exaggerated because the council president had fallen out of favor with “more than a handful of Oakland’s high ranking police officers.”

In May, De La Fuente Jr. admitted in court that he raped and sexually assaulted four women. He is scheduled for sentencing in October and could face 14 years in prison. De La Fuente Sr. did not return multiple calls seeking comment Sunday.

The Web site said a private investigator hired by the De La Fuente family found “clear indications of police misconduct that included falsified and altered police reports, witness coercion and plain dirty politics.”

Police Chief Wayne Tucker said he hadn’t learned of De La Fuente’s charges until Friday.

“This is a slap in the face at the integrity of the Oakland Police Department,” he said. “Our integrity has been called into question.”

Mayor Ron Dellums’ office did not comment.

“We’re not going to comment at this point pending the police department’s investigation,” said Dellums spokesman Paul Rose.

Dellums collected 50.19 percent of the vote in a June 2006 mayoral election. The second-place De La Fuente garnered 32.98 percent.

— Kelly Rayburn

Discovery Bay

TWO-ALARM FIRE DAMAGES HOMES: One home was destroyed and another substantially damaged in a two-alarm fire in Discovery Bay on Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

The fire began shortly after 5 p.m. on North Point. Firefighters from the East Contra Costa Fire District called for reinforcements from the Contra Costa Fire District when they found a waterfront home engulfed by flames.

A second home sustained 50 percent damage. A fence at a third home also was damaged.

A firefighter suffered heat exhaustion battling the blaze, which was brought under control at 6:39 p.m.

Fire officials didn’t immediately have a damage estimate. The cause is under investigation.

— Scott Marshall

Martinez

METH LAB IN BACK OF TRUCK SEIZED: Martinez police and drug investigators seized suspected methamphetamine and chemicals Sunday from a pickup truck and arrested three people.

The investigation began early Sunday when police received a call that meth was being produced in the pickup, which was parked at a home in the 1400 block of Ash Street, said Martinez police Sgt. Jon Sylvia.

Police saw the materials in the bed of the truck, which was covered with a camper shell, and called county narcotics investigators, Sylvia said.

Violent police encounters in California last year led to the deaths of 157 people and six officers, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday in a report that provides the first statewide tally on police use-of-force incidents.

At 6:03 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to reports of the robbery at the facility, 2301 Bancroft way, and learned that a man who snuck into the facility and began prowling through the building, taking cell phones and wallets from victims.

Investigators’ efforts to solve the case led to the arrests of Pablo Mendoza, 25, of Hayward, Brandon Follings, 26, of Oakland and Valeria Boden, 26, of Alameda, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.